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PART 2.

The prop in STAR TREK: VOYAGER.

The prop in STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE.

The prop in AIRPLANE II: THE SEQUEL where William Shatner's lunar space station crew do not what the prop is used for.

The prop in THE LAST STARFIGHTER.

The prop in the V tv series.

 

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 (PART 1---PART 2 is continued in the post below this one).


JOHN BRONCO---trailer released for the mockumentary starring Walton Goggins.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDjyXcBBjHI



CASSIAN ANDOR---Adria Arjona (PACIFIC RIM UPRISING, TRIPLE FRONTIER) will co-star in the untitled Disney+ prequel to ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY. Her role was not disclosed.

TRON---Jared Leto, in a now-deleted post, said the upcoming sequel is titled TRON: ARES.

THREE MEN AND A BABY---Zac Efron will star in the Disney+ remake of the 1987 movie that starred Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg.

THE OFFICE---Lindsey Broad, who played office temp Cathy Simms, is still disliked by fans because her character tried to seduce Jim. When Broad posted that her dog was murdered by another dog, fans were not sympathetic, "If anyone is wondering what it was like to be on The Office, the best comedy of this century: I just posted something on Instagram about how my dog was murdered and a bunch of people were like “F*ck you, Cathy, she deserved it!” So. There ya go!"

THE BOYS---Shawn Ashmore will play Lamplighter, the pyrokinetic ex-member of the Seven in Season 2.

BLAZING SAMURAI---animated animal movie based on BLAZING SADDLES in which a dog samurai protects a town whose residents are all cats.The voice cast includes Mel Brooks, Samuel L. Jackson and Michelle Yeoh.

MacGRUBER---Peacock tv sereies underway starring Wil Forte. Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe are in negotiations to co-star.

GEORGE CARLIN---HBO two-part George Carlin documentary underway with Judd Apatow as the director.

TRIVIA---prop #195-290-1 was a generator prop that was used in many sci fi movies and tv shows including STAR TREK, AIRPLANE II: THE SEQUEL, THE LAST STARFIGHTER and V.

Prop #195-290-1

The prop in STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN.

The prop in STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER.

The prop in episodes of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

 

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12

MULAN---new trailer released for the Disney+ remake movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJbAZh3fv0g



THE WINDS OF WAR---Seth McFarlane is developing a miniseries based on the Herman Wouk World War II novel, “I can’t think of a more exciting project with which to launch my creative partnership with UCP than Herman Wouk’s THE WINDS OF WAR, I’ve been a devoted fan of Wouk’s WWII epic for decades, and its depiction of small-scale human endurance in the face of large-scale global upheaval has never been more relevant than it is today. In my very first meeting with [UCP president] Dawn Olmstead, we connected over this project — I learned that she herself comes from a Naval family — and to bring it to fruition under her stewardship and that of her UCP team will be a perfect fit for all. We can’t wait to get started.” The original 1983 ABC miniseries starred Robert Mitchum, Ali McGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent and Polly Bergen.

FORBES HIGHEST-PAID ACTORS---FORBES released its annual list of highest-paid actors.

1. Dwayne Johnson--$87.5 million
2. Ryan Reynolds--$71.5 million
3. Mark Wahlberg--$58 million
4. Ben Affleck--$55 million
5. Vin Diesel--$54 million
6. Akshay Kumar--$48.5 million
7. Lin-Manual Miranda--$45.5 million
8. Will Smith--$44.5 million
9. Adam Sandler--$41 million
10.Jackie Chan--$40 million

FEAR STREET---Netflix acquired the movie trilogy based on the RL Stine books with a premiere in the summer of 2021.

THE BABY---HBO comedy horror series described as, "'When 38-year-old Natasha is unexpectedly landed with a baby, her life of doing what she wants, when she wants, dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative, and with violent powers, the baby twists Natasha’s life into a horror show. Where does it come from? What does it want? And what lengths will Natasha have to go to in order to get her life back? Terrifying and darkly comic THE BABY gleefully deconstructs the “joy of motherhood,” exploring the powerful anxiety of whether or not to have children, questioning who gets to choose “motherhood” and who doesn’t. She doesn’t want a baby. The baby wants her."'

BATWOMAN---Ruby Rose commented on leaving BATWOMAN, “Being the lead of a superhero show is tough. [Laughs] Being the lead in anything is tough. But I think, in that particular instance, it was a lot more difficult because I was still recovering from my surgery. I had my surgery and then 10 days later I went to work, which maybe wasn’t the best idea. Most people take about a month or three off before they return to work, so it was definitely made more difficult by that…I love my experience in [BATWOMAN]. I’m so grateful that we got to achieve everything that we did and I’m proud of everyone that worked on it. I’m proud of myself for working under sort of interesting circumstances, you know, with the recovery and all. I would definitely do [TV] again. I just think that it was also time for me to take a break to fully heal and then return.”

MY SPY---a sequel with Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman returning is being discussed.

TRIVIA---Peter Hyams directed movies including BUSTING, CAPRICORN ONE, OUTLAND and RUNNING SCARED. With tongue-in-cheek, Hyams commented on his film career accomplishments, "No AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, no Oscars. However, I think I'm the only director who ever had two leading men formally tried for the first degree murder of their wives which is Robert Blake and OJ Simpson. It's not much, except it's something."
Robert Blake co-starred with Elliott Gould in BUSTING. Blake was tried and acquitted in the murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Blakely. He was later found responsible for her murder in a civil court.
OJ Simpson co-starred with Elliott Gould and James Brolin in CAPRICORN ONE. Simpson was tried and acquitted in the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. He was later found responsible for their murders in a civil court.

Robert Blake co-starred with Elliott Gould in BUSTING. Blake was tried and acquitted in the murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Blakely. He was later found responsible for her murder in a civil court.

OJ Simpson co-starred with Elliott Gould and James Brolin in CAPRICORN ONE. Simpson was tried and acquitted in the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. He was later found responsible for their murders in a civil court.

 

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13

LEGO STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL---Disney+/LEGO holiday special is connected to the original 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special and is set after THE RISE OF SKYWALKER when Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Chewbacca and Rose Tico gather to celebrate Life Day. Rey and droid BB-8 embark on journey to a mysterious Jedi temple which leads to encounters with Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. The premiere is November 17.

AVATAR---sequel photo released of James Cameron on the set of a High Camp Bio Lab.

STAR TREK---David Tennant said if he could join any franchise it would be STAR TREK.

JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---Jake Johnson commented on returning for DOMINION, “I was getting ready to go out and then this pandemic hit and so everything got pushed and the schedule got rearranged,” Johnson said. “And now we’re trying to figure it out because obviously I’m in STUMPTOWN and we’re going into Season 2 of that. So we’re figuring out the scheduling and how and if we can make it work. But Colin Trevorrow, the director, is a good friend, we’re old friends and we’ve been talking a lot and we’re trying to figure out how to do it.”
Johnson added, “At one point I pitched that he has like a huge pony tail now and he’s got like an army jacket and he’s kind of going through some PTSD of what he lived through. I wanted the 70s glasses and he’s always smoking a cigarette, but luckily Colin said no so we’ll see what happens (laughs). I was like, ‘Man I think he should be tatted up from the ankles to the ears, he saw a dinosaur attack!’”

47 RONIN---Universal Pictures sequel underway to the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie. The sequel will be set 300 years in the future in a cyberpunk world. Ron Yuang (MULAN) is the director.

COLLEGE REPUBLICANS---Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield will star in this movie about the early days of Republican strategists Karl Rove and Lee Atwater.

MRS. MARCH---Elisabeth Moss will star in this movie based on the upcoming novel about a New York woman who goes ballistic when she suspects the despicable character in her husband's new novel is based on her.

THE CROWN---Jonathan Pryce will play Prince Philip in Seasons 5 and 6.

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER---creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have left the Netflix live-action series due to creative differences.

ONE OF US IS LYING---Peacock tv series underway based on the young adult novel.

TRIVIA--Tom Selleck said he and author Tom Clancy (THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER) developed a MAGNUM PI movie, “Tom Clancy is a huge MAGNUM fan. In the early ‘90s, [Clancy had] done a couple of wildly successful movie adaptations of his books. We got together, and I went to Universal, and I said, ‘It’s time we could do a series of feature films.’ They were very interested, and I had Tom, who wanted to do the story, and I had this package put together, but Universal’s the only studio that could make it, and they went through three ownership changes in the ‘90s, and I think that was the real window for MAGNUM."
Selleck elaborated on the movie plot, “This movie, written by Tom Clancy, with the original cast, set in Hong Kong during the transfer of power to the Chinese, with North Koreans getting plutonium for a bomb. Tell me that wouldn’t have been a hit?”
Universal Pictures rejected the Selleck/Clancy movie in favor of a MAGNUM proposal from producer Brian Grazer which included rumors of George Clooney playing Magnum. However, even this movie never came to fruition.

 

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14

THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME---trailer released for the Netflix movie starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIzazUv2gtI



UNHINGED---new trailer released for the road rage movie starring Russell Crowe.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj1w-b_H06g



WAR WITH GRANDPA---trailer released for the comedy movie starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Uma Thurman.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlLfKNa3kA



JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---new sequel photo shows Bryce Dallas Howard examining baby dinosaurs.

BLAZING SADDLES---HBO Max has added a disclaimer about racism similar to the disclaimer on GONE WITH THE WIND. The disclaimer, which is over three minutes long, is by University of Chicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart, who also provided the GONE WITH THE WIND disclaimer, “This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns. It’s as provocative today as it was when it premiered back in 1974....Those attitudes are espoused by characters who are portrayed here as explicitly small-minded, ignorant bigots. The real, and much more enlightened perspective, is provided by the main characters played by Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder."
Director/writer Mel Brooks said BLAZING SADDLES could not be made today because of political correctness.

UPPER WORLD---Daniel Kaluuya stars in this Netflix movie based on the young adult novel about a man who sees glimpses of the future and the past.

SPY---Idris Elba will star in this untitled Apple TV+ romantic action spy movie set in Africa.

LOVE HARD---Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Chang and Charles Melton star in this Netflix romantic comedy movie about a Los Angeles woman who uses a dating app to find a guy on the East coast. When she meets the guy, he's the wrong guy, but he promises to introduce her to the real date if she promises to be his girlfriend for the holidays.

TRIVIA---in the classic John Wayne Western RIO BRAVO, Rickey Nelson sings "Get Along Home, Cindy" accompanied by Dean Martin and Walter Brennan. All three would have top-five hits in the Billboard Top 100. Martin had "Everybody Loves Somebody", Nelson had "Travelin' Man", "Young World" and "Teen Age Idol" and Brennan had "Old Rivers".

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyiJQB2KvDY&list=RDqyiJQB2KvDY&start_radio=1

 

[marco55]

I love Rio Bravo,John Wayne,Walter Brennan,Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson were great together IMO.
Mark

 

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MONDAY, AUGUST 17

ENOLA HOLMES---trailer released for the movie starring Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkLS_VwPGzQ



THE LORD OF THE RINGS---a rumor claims Kaya Scodelario (CRAWL) has joined the Amazon prequel cast.

ARMY OF THE DEAD---Tig Notaro (STAR TREK: DISCOVERY) will replace Chris D'Elia in the Zack Snyder zombie movie after sexual harassment accusations were made against D'Elia. D'Elia's scenes have already been filmed, so Notaro will be inserted into the movie using CGI. The plot has a Las Vegas casino owner hiring a mercenary team to retrieve money left in a casino vault after a zombie plague hits the city.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD---George Miller speculated on what became of Furiosa after FURY ROAD, “There’s two ways to go. One is utopian, which is not an interesting story, really. I’ve somehow imagined that the first thing she would do in line with that, is go up and release the water… it wasn’t withheld… A New Deal, politically.
[Mythology historian Joseph] Campbell said that the usual story is that today’s hero becomes tomorrow’s tyrant. The hero is the agent of change. They basically relinquish self-interest in order for some common good. [Campbell] basically says … you love what you’ve built, or saved, too much. You become holdfast. You become the orthodoxy. You develop the dogma and basically then you have to protect it. That tends to be the rhythm of these things.”
He added, “I think she’s too smart to fall into that trap. She’s already seen it with the Immortan Joe. I believe he went through the same process. He was probably a heroic character in his own time.”

THE BOYS---Jensen Ackles (SUPERNATURAL) will play superhero Soldier Boy in Season 3.

AQUAMAN 2---James Wan said the sequel will have a greater emphasis on horror, “I would say yes. Just like the first movie had a touch of my horror sensibility in it, in regards to the Trench sequence, I would say there’ll be a little bit of that in this next one. I think it’s something that’s a big part of who I am, and it just naturally comes out in these kinds of films.”
He added, “And especially a movie like AQUAMAN, you know where the story takes place in these underwater worlds that can be very scary. So naturally, my love for the horror genre just means that I latch myself to these scenes and try to give them a little bit more of my scary sauce.”

CRISIS OF INFINITE EARTHS---Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy said fans are unhappy about how Batman was portrayed in the CW crossover, “The fans were not happy about that. They didn’t like seeing that version of Bruce Wayne. But for me it was fun, it was a lot of fun to sort of stretch my acting chops a little bit. They didn’t tell me anything about the Batman.
They just said he was the Batman in the future, an old Bruce Wayne. I said, ‘You mean like in Batman Beyond old Bruce Wayne?’ They said, ‘No, he’s not 80. But he’s older and he’s in bad shape.’
They’re so guarded with their scripts, the studios, they don’t give them out. So they didn’t give me anything. I got the script basically when I was about to get on a plane to fly to Vancouver to do the show, I hadn’t seen anything.
I said yes because I was so excited to do something on camera again [after] 25 years… I didn’t know that was going to happen. So it was full of surprises. I didn’t know I was going to try and kill Supergirl. He was dark. He was dark.”

CLUELESS---Peaccock tv reboot of the 1995 movie that is described as, "a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sun-glasses wearing, oat milk latte and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong number two Dionne steps into Cher’s vacant Air Jordans. How does Dionne deal with the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school, while also unraveling the mystery of what happened to her best friend?"

THE CROWN---Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in the final two seasons.

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
In GOLDFINGER, famed voice and movie actor Les Tremayne provided the voice for the radio news announcer that sets up James Bond's reply about enjoying sex with Jill Masterson. Tremayne once said about his career,"I've been in more than 30 motion pictures, but it's from radio ... that most people remember me." Tremayne's memorable movie roles include Maj. Gen. Mann in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, the auctioneer in Alfred Hitchcock's classic NORTH BY NORTHWEST and the narrator in FORBIDDEN PLANET.

In GOLDFINGER, the radio news announcer (Les Tremayne) says, "Station WEBS brings you the latest in world news. Washington... at the White House today, the president said that he was entirely satisfied."
After enjoying sex with Jill Masterson, James Bond (Sean Connery) replies, "That makes two of us."

Tremayne played Maj. Gen. Mann in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Tremayne played the auctioneer in Alfred Hitchcock's classic NORTH BY NORTHWEST.

Tremayne was the narrator in FORBIDDEN PLANET.

 

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18

DEPARTURE---trailer released for the Peacock mystery miniseries about a downed airliner starring Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmEMdMnGcm4



THE SECRETS WE KEEP---trailer released for the revenge movie starring Noomi Rapace.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGKX5rzRMho



PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES---Will Smith and Kevin Hart will star in the Paramount Pictures remake of the 1987 Thanksgiving comedy movie that starred Steve Martin and John Candy. Aeysha Carr (WOKE, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE) is the writer.

DUNE---Kyle McLachlan, star of the original 1984 movie, said the novel should have been made as a movie series, tv series or miniseries, "I would lobby for three or more films, because it has that kind of potential to really open up. In my imagination, I always thought it would be great to approach it like a GAME OF THRONES model, where you have seasons, or at least a 10-part series, or a 12-part series. You could really go from beginning to end. There’s a mysticism about it [the novel] that is difficult to capture on film. That, combined with a straight-ahead story, and characters that are really well-created. They’re full people, and you want to spend time with each one of them. And that eats up your film time. It’s a real puzzle. It’s just so many elements that you have to bring together."

THE MATRIX 4---Laurence Fishburne commented on returning as Morpheus for the latest sequel, "No. I have not been invited...I wish them well. I hope it’s great.” A rumor claims Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (AQUAMAN) is playing a young Morpheus in the sequel.

ARCANA---Lionsgate urban fantasy movie underway about the hidden world of magical clans. Chad Stahelski (JOHN WICK) is the director.

STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS---all six installments of the CBS All Access series will stream for free through August 31.

FIREWATCH---movie underway based on the video game.

THE OWL HOUSE---apprentice witch Luz Noceda was confirmed to be bisexual which makes her Walt Disney's first LGBTQ+ lead character.

TRIVIA---STAR WARS: EPISODE I--THE PHANTOM MENACE received seven Golden Raspberry Award nominations with three of the Razzie nominations being for actors Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd and last, but not least, Sofia Coppola, daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola and a future director herself.

In THE PHANTOM MENACE, Sofia Coppola (middle) received a Razzie Award nomination for playing Sache, one of Queen Amidala's handmaidens.

 

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19

DEATH ON THE NILE---trailer released for the remake movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1U-Whb-P0



DEAD RINGERS---Rachel Weisz will star in this Amazon tv series based on the 1988 David Cronenberg movie about twin gynecologists who fall in love with the same woman. Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold starred in the original movie. Weisz will play twin female gynecologists who fall in love with the same man.

TIME AGENT---US remake of the South Korean time travel movie about an agent who travels back in time to save the future and accidentally saves the life of a girl who was about to commit suicide. Derek Kolstad (JOHN WICK) is the writer.

GAME OF THRONES---Charles Dance was killed off in Season 5, but he continued to watch the show and was disappointed, like many fans, at how it ended, "I mean, I saw it. I continue to watch the whole series even after I'd been killed off in the lavatory. Because I just thought it's a fantastic television show, you know? I was very lucky to be part of it. I loved it; there were storylines [where] I wanted to know what was going to happen to these people! I know that the finale satisfied a lot of people. It also disappointed a lot of people, and I'm afraid I am in the latter camp."

HEIST---Daniel Dae Kim and Randall Park will star in this untitled Amazon movie about friends at a high school reunion who plan a major heist.

THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE---Issa Rae will star in this Netflix movie based on the Tanya Smith memoir about a black woman who went on to “become one of the single biggest threats to the entire United States banking system” when she set up a sophisticated wire fraud scheme.

WARRIOR NUN---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.

TRIVIA---character actor Ross Martin is best known for playing heroic Secret Service agent Artemus Gordon in THE WILD, WILD WEST. Martin played villains in two Blake Edwards movies: EXPERIMENT IN TERROR and THE GREAT RACE.

Character actor Ross Martin is best known for playing heroic Secret Service agent Artemus Gordon in THE WILD, WILD WEST.

Martin played psychotic killer Red Lynch in Blake Edwards' EXPERIMENT IN TERROR.

Martin played villainous Baron Rolfe von Stuppe in Edwards' comedy THE GREAT RACE.

 

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20

SPIDER-WOMAN---Olivia Wilde will direct and co-write a Sony Pictures movie based on a superhero from Sony's Marvel Universe which is also known as SPUMC. Rumors claim the movie will focus on Spider-Woman.

GLADIATOR---Russell Crowe commented on a early sequel idea from producer Doug Wick," I haven't talked to Doug in a long, long time. Last time I talked to Doug, he said he had this great idea where Maximus gets carried from the stadium and they pull back this big rock and he gets put into this cave and then the rock closes over and he's anointed with oils. And then the rock opens up and he comes out. And I said, ‘Doug, I don't think we have the rights to that story.’ But that was a long, long time ago and I don't think he appreciated my sense of humor."
Crowe's agent once had a sequel idea in which Maximus is still alive after he faked his death in the original movie's Coliseum scene.

THE EXORCIST---a rumor that Morgan Creek Entertainment has a “planned theatrical reboot of The Exorcist in the works for 2021” led William Friedkin to tweet, “I have nothing to do with an Exorcist reboot and wouldn’t watch it if there was one.”

STAR WARS---Brie Larson commented on unsuccessfully auditioning for all the new STAR WARS movies, "I didn’t get GOSSIP GIRL, and I’m really glad. I auditioned for HUNGER GAMES and I didn’t get it. I auditioned for TOMORROWLAND and I didn’t get it. I auditioned for all of the new STAR WARS movies and I didn’t get it. I don’t even know why I’m saying I didn’t get it. Like, you know I didn’t."

PINOCCHIO---the voice cast for the Guillermo del Toro animated movie includes Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Ron Perlman and Finn Wolfhard.

IQ 83---director Charlie Kaufman said he is developing an HBO miniseries based on the novel, “I’m developing this thing for HBO, which is a limited series about a virus that causes stupidity. And it’s based on a screenplay I wrote, which is based on a novel called IQ 83.
And I’m actually developing it for them, so it’s possible that it’s going to happen, [but] I don’t know that it’s going to happen. But I’m very interested in it because of the circumstances in which we live. I’m very interested in exploring the notion of that, and treating it as kind of a metaphor.”

STRANGER THINGS---co-creator Ross Duffer said Season 4 will not be the last season, “Season 4 won’t be the end. We know what the end is, and we know when it is. [The coronavirus pandemic] has given us time to look ahead, figure out what is best for the show. Starting to fill that out gave us a better idea of how long we need to tell that story.”

TED LASSO---Apple TV+ renewed the series for Season 2.

TRIVIA---character actors John Ratzenberger (CHEERS) and Kenneth Colley appeared in two special effects-laden movies: STAR WARS: EPISODE V-THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX.
In THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Ratzenberger plays Maj. Derlin, and Colley plays Adm. Piett. In FIREFOX, Ratzenberger plays Chief Peck, who refuels Eastwood's MiG-31 Firefox from a submarine, and Colley plays Soviet Col. Kontarsky, who tries to prevent Eastwood from stealing the Firefox.

In THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Ratzenberger plays Maj. Derlin, and Colley plays Adm. Piett.

In FIREFOX, Ratzenberger plays Chief Peck, who refuels Eastwood's MiG-31 Firefox from a submarine, and Colley plays Soviet Col. Kontarsky, who tries to prevent Eastwood from stealing the Firefox.

 

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21

THE RIGHT STUFF---trailer released for the Disney+ tv series based on the Tom Wolfe book.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og0htvEVqJQ



GUCCI---Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver and Jared Leto are in negotiations to co-star with Lady Gaga in this Ridley Scott movie about Patrizia Reggiani, who was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband who was the grandson of fashion leader Guccio Gucci.

THE FLASH---director Andy Muschietti confirmed that Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton will appear as Batman in THE FLASH. The movie is reportedly based on the "Flashpoint" comic book storyline which would allow both to appear, “This movie is a bit of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that implies a unified universe where all the cinematic iterations that we’ve seen before are valid. It’s inclusive in the sense that it is saying all that you’ve seen exists, and everything that you will see exists, in the same unified multiverse.”

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT---Pedro Pascal (THE MANDALORIAN) will co-star with Nicolas Cage in this movie about a debt-plagued Cage who tries to get a role in a Quentin Tarantino movie and is forced to attend the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire. When the billionaire turns out to be a drug lord, the US government asks Cage to be an informant. Cage must then rescue his ex-wife and estranged daughter from the drug lord.

BELLA THORNE---untitled documentary underway about Bella Thorne joining the OnlyFans subscription service in which members pay $20 per month to see suggestive photos of Thorne, Shortly after her announcement, the site crashed with 1.6 million viewers who paid to see Thorne in an orange bikini. She claims she will earn $1 million per month from OnlyFans. Sean Baker (TANGERINE) is the documentary director.

NATIONAL ENQUIRER: THE UNTOLD STORY!---Sony Pictures Television miniseries underway about the tabloid newspaper.

DRUNK HISTORY---Comedy Central cancelled the series.

RuPAUL'S DRAG RACE---VH1 renewed the series for Season 13.

TRIVIA---in THE GREAT ESCAPE, Jud Taylor played Lt. Goff. Taylor later became a director and directed the 1988 NBC tv movie THE GREAT ESCAPE II: THE UNTOLD STORY. The tv movie focused on Maj. Johnnie Dodge (Christopher Reeve), a US-born British officer and cousin of Winston Churchill, who was a member of The Great Escape and his part in the investigation and tracking down of the Gestapo members who executed 50 of the escapees.

In THE GREAT ESCAPE, Jud Taylor played Lt. Goff.

Taylor later became a director and directed the 1988 NBC tv movie THE GREAT ESCAPE II: THE UNTOLD STORY. The tv movie focused on Maj. Johnnie Dodge (Christopher Reeve), a US-born British officer and cousin of Winston Churchill, who was a member of The Great Escape and his part in the investigation and tracking down of the Gestapo members who executed 50 of the escapees.

 

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MONDAY, AUGUST 24

THE BATMAN---trailer released for the Robert Pattinson movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOp_6uPccQ



WONDER WOMAN 1984---trailer released for the sequel.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-g_YNZ90tI



BLACK ADAM---Dwayne Johnson released a teaser trailer for the movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73oTiIIJe0



TENET---new trailer released for the movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZGcmvrTX9M



ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE---trailer released for the HBO Max movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6512XKKNkU



THE FLASH---artwork shows The Flash's new costume.

STAR WARS---Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said hiring a female director for a future STAR WARS movie is underway, "It's absolutely a priority. I was actually sad because I love Nia DaCosta, who was just announced to do CAPTAIN MARVEL [2]. She’s another director I’ve been watching, and I think she’s enormously talented.”
Also, John Boyega continued his caustic replies to STAR WARS fans who do not like the new movies, "Toxic Star Wars fans still find their way to my mentions. Lord. Must I be blunt? I don’t f*ck with you no more" and "Lord waited so long to tell the toxic fans to fack off." One exchange had a fan tweeting, "It’s the franchise that’s toxic. Disney destroyed it. And you kinda suck too. But it was mainly the plots.", and Boyega replied, "Lmao".

AQUAMAN 2---director James Wan commented on the sequel, “I would say the sequel will be a little more serious and a little more relevant to the world we’re living in today.” Wan said Patrick Wilson is returning as Ocean Master.

SHAZAM!---director David F. Sandberg said the sequel's title is SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS.

PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS---Showtime cancelled the series.

STATIC SHOCK---director Reginald Hudlin said a movie based on the comic book is being considered, “We’re in serious conversations about, as we’re launching the comic book series, developing the STATIC SHOCK movie. That will be a theatrical feature film. We’re also talking to all the other divisions of Warner, for example, the animation department… and we’re talking about doing one of those feature films involving the Milestone characters. We’re also looking at new media.”

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
According to THE SPY WHO LOVED ME co-writer Tom Mankiewicz, Catherine Deneuve wanted to be Bond Girl, Russian spy Anya Amasova, so badly she offered to reduce her standard fee from $400,000 to $250,000. Negotiations continued until filming almost began, but producer Cubby Broccoli refused to pay anything over $80,000. The role then went to Barbara Bach, the wife of Ringo Starr.

 

[dragon53]

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25

ENOLA HOLMES--trailer released for the Netflix movie starring Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0Zf9sXlHk



RAISED BY WOLVES---new trailer released from the HOB Max/Ridley Scott sci fi tv series.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwttF7uv1I



THE THING---John Carpenter was asked if he and Blumhouse head Jason Blum have talked about Carpenter directing any future Blumhouse movies. Carpenter replied that he and Blum are working on a reboot of Carpenter's classic 1982 sci fi movie, “I have? I don’t know about that. But we’ve talked about – I think he’s going to be working on THE THING, rebooting THE THING. I’m involved with that, maybe. Down the road.” VARIETY confirmed the reboot is underway, but no details about it are known. Since Blumhouse and Carpenter successfully rebooted HALLOWEEN with Jamie Lee Curtis returning, some fans think THE THING reboot might have Kurt Russell returning.

STAR WARS---Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy commented on the timelines of future STAR WARS movies, “Stories have been told within this universe over the last 40-odd years, and there’s now the realization that this is a mythology that actually spans about 25,000 years, when you really start to look at all the different stories that have been told, whether it’s in books and games. We just need the time to step back and really absorb what George [Lucas] has created, and then start to think about where things might go. That’s what we’ve been doing, and we’ve been having a great deal of fun doing it, and meeting with lots of different filmmakers and talent.”
She also THE MANDALORIAN proves STAR WARS can succeed beyond the Skywalker realm, “I’ve already seen evidence of it. The ability to be very character-driven, with extended storytelling and connected storytelling, I think this space offers us a great opportunity to do that.”

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR---Project X reboot of the 1963 Jerry Lewis movie is underway.

THE KAIJU SCORE---Sony Pictures movie underway based on the upcoming comic book about criminals who plan a heist with a 1,000 ton kaiju protecting their target.

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE---co-directors Andy and Ryan Tohill left the Legendary sequel to the original 1974 movie due to creative differences. Legendary was reportedly unhappy with early footage from the sequel.

JOHN BELUSHI---Adam Pally is in talks to star in the untitled John Belushi biomovie. Ike Barinholtz will play Dan Aykroyd. Aubrey Plaza is a candidate to play Belushi's wife.

YELLOWSTONE---the Season 3 finale drew a record-breaking 5.2 million viewers which was one million more than any previous episode and made it the most-watched cable telecast of 2020.

THE PRIZE---movie underway about a private detective who travels to Stockholm to investigate the murder of his friend, a member of the Nobel Prize selection committee, and discovers a criminal conspiracy.

A WEST WING SPECIAL TO BENEFIT WHEN WE ALL VOTE---HBO Max/Aaron Sorkin special will reunite the original cast including Martin Sheen, Allyson Janey, Rob Lowe, Richard Schiff and Bradley Whitford.

TROLL---Netflix reboot of the Norwegian mythical monster movie is underway.

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS---CW live-action tv series underway based on the animated tv series.

TRIVIA---today is Sean Connery's 90th birthday. While serving in the Royal Navy as an anti-aircraft gunner on the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable, Connery acquired two tattoos which say, "Scotland Forever" and "Mum and Dad".

Sean Connery's tattoos, "Scotland Forever" and "Mum and Dad" are visible as Connery posed with Kim Basinger in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.

 

[dragon53]

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26

AMMONITE---trailer released for the movie about a lesbian relationship between a paleontologist and her apprentice.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDhlrs3XVM



I AM WOMAN---trailer released for the Helen Reddy biomovie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztecc_eE5o



JOE EXOTIC---Kate McKinnon will star in thus untitled NBC miniseries about the rivalry between big-cat enthusiasts Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin. Baskin was not happy about how Chole Fineman portrayed her on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, “I could just slap that woman! [laughs]."
Baskin hopes Fineman's SNL co-star McKinnon does a better job of portraying her, “[Kate] has not reached out to me and I really hope that she does before she gets too far down the line with it. I’d love to know what her take is on it and what she’s thinking to do and see if there was any way we could advise her. We reached out to her through the media — because I don’t have any way of contacting Kate McKinnon — but we had posted publicly that we really hope that her or anybody that does any kind of follow-up programming doesn’t end up doing what Cardi B did and hiring people that are exploiting and abusing cats. It’s like the worst thing you can do is abuse cats to show other people that you shouldn’t abuse cats.”

WORLD WAR Z 2---Mirielle Enos commented on the cancelled zombie sequel, "It seems to have a little curse hanging over it. We were all lined up to go.We had [director David] Fincher, we had a beautiful script and then it just didn't happen. It seems like such a shame for it not to be made. The first one was so good."

TWIN PEAKS---Kyle MacLachlan commented on if there will be newer episodes, "I don’t know. David [Lynch] is such an interesting and enigmatic person. I would never say never. I don’t think it’s probably gonna happen, but knowing David, I just don’t know. If he were to return, it would be so much fun. I would love to come back and reprise that role, in any situation. Any way that he would create it would be really exciting to me. But at this point, I just don’t know."

WANDERERS---Lionsgate tv miniseries underway based on the novel set after a deadly epidemic in which a rock star, a disgraced scientist, a religious radio show host and a teenage girl embark on a dangerous journey across the US.

ICON---Fox anthology tv series with each season focusing on a music legend. Season 1 will be about Naomi and Wynonna Judd.

IDA RED---Frank Grillo, Josh Hartnett and Melissa Leo star in this movie about the female head of a crime family, who is suffering from a terminal disease in prison, and her mentoring the family in its criminal activities as they are pursued by an in-law and the FBI.

TRIVIA---Ty Hardin starred in a number of tv Westerns including BRONCO, MAVERICK, CHEYENNE and TENDERFOOT. Sergio Leone offered Hardin the Man with No Name role in his spaghetti Western, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, but Hardin turned it down. Leone then offered the role to another star of a tv Western, RAWHIDE,----and Clint Eastwood accepted the role.

Ty Hardin starred in a number of tv Westerns including BRONCO, MAVERICK, CHEYENNE and TENDERFOOT. Sergio Leone offered Hardin the Man with No Name role in his spaghetti Western, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, but Hardin turned it down.

Leone then offered the role to another star of a tv Western, RAWHIDE,----and Clint Eastwood accepted the role.

 

[dragon53]

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27

DESERT ONE---trailer released from the documentary about the failed 1980 mission to rescue hostages in Tehran.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnSGvR0pZ0g&t=89s



TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND---trailer released for the latest sequel in the monster movie franchise.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy5SdhvtUCg



COME PLAY---trailer released for the horror movie.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKqGqLHYdHo



AQUAMAN 2---a rumor claims Warner Bros. is considering firing Amber Heard and replacing her with Emily Blunt as Mera. Heard has received a lot of negative publicity about her marriage and bitter divorce from Johnny Depp.

RESIDENT EVIL---Netflix tv series underway based on the video game and movie franchise and will focus on the teenage daughters of villain Albert Wesker. The synopsis is, "In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.
Cut to the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past – about her sister, her father and herself – continue to haunt her."
Andrew Dabb (SUPERNATURAL) is the writer/showrunner.

HALLOWEEN KILLS---John Carpenter commented on the sequel, “It’s the quintessential slasher film…It is so intense…oh my god…it even stuns me how incredible it is. David [director David Gordon Green] just did a great job. Can’t wait to have you see it.”

LUCY & DESI---documentary underway about the marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and how their classic tv series, I LOVE LUCY, affected Hollywood. Amy Poehler is the director.

THE MAKING OF---Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Blake Lively and Lin-Manuel Miranda will star in this romantic comedy movie about a married filmmaking couple who are filming a movie about the early days of their marriage when their marriage begins to fall apart. Ed Zwick is the director.

COMING TO AMERICA 2---Wesley Snipes, who plays villain Gen. Izzi, commented on the sequel's humor, “You’re going to have to wear a diaper! You’re going to have to put something or some pad underneath because you’re going to just leak all over yourself. I am telling you.”

INTERCEPTORS---Fox tv series underway about a Miami-based Coast Guard Special Forces team that battles drug runners.

SKYWATCH---Peacock sci fi tv series underway based on the short film about a teenager who crashes a drone prototype and discovers a vast conspiracy. Seth McFarlane is the producer.

ALTERED CARBON---Netflix cancelled the series.

CBS---the network will air CBS All Access tv shows STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (Season 1), ONE DAY AT A TIME (Season 4) and MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES in September and October.

TRIVIA---Beemans gum was a favorite of aviators because it contained pepsin which helped prevent motion sickness and nausea. Beemans earned the reputation of being the "lucky" gum for aviators when legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager said he chewed Beemans before each flight. Beemans was featured in several aviation movies including THE RIGHT STUFF with Yeager and THE ROCKETEER.

In THE RIGHT STUFF, Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) said the movie's famous line, "Hey, Ridley, you got any Beemans?"

In THE ROCKETEER, Beemans is used to seal a hole in the rocket pack and seal the fiery fate of Nazi Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton).

 

[dragon53]

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28

THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT---trailer released for the Netflix miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU854_5itOk



SPHERE---HBO tv series underway based on the Michael Crichton sci fi novel about scientists investigating an alien sphere that has been on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean for almost 300 years.The original 1998 movie starred Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson. The tv series writer/showrunner is Denise The (WESTWORLD). The co-producers are Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and Robert Downey, Jr.

HIGHFIRE---Nicolas Cage will provide the lead voice for this Amazon tv series based on the novel about Lord Highfire, who used to rule the dragon-led Earth, but is now known as Vern and lives in a shack in a Louisiana swamp watching cable tv and drinking vodka.

INVASION---Sam Neill will star in this Apple TV+ sci fi series about an alien invasion of Earth seen from the perspectives of the US, England, Morocco and Japan. Neill will play Sheriff John Bell Tyson.

CODE NAME HELENE---Elizabeth Debicki will star in this tv miniseries based on the World War II book about journalist Nancy Grace Augusta Wake who became a spy and leader of the French Resistance.

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON---Kelly Marie Tran replaced Cassie Steele as a voice star of this Walt Disney animated movie. This makes Tran the first Southeast Asian lead in a Disney animated movie.

MOTHER LAND---Lionsgate horror movie about a family terrorized by an evil spirit for many years until one of the children thinks the spirit does not exist.

MULTIVORCE---CBS All Access adult animated comedy series about three children torn between their divorced parents. Their father is an ordinary guy, and their mother is warrior queen of a dangerous kingdom.

THE NOEL DIARY---Justin Hartley, Bonnie Bedelia and Treat Williams will star in this Netflix movie based on the novel.

IVANKA TRUMP---HBO miniseries underway based on the podcast series TABLOID: THE MAKING OF IVANKA TRUMP.

TRIVIA---Fred Ward played a prison escapee in two movies: ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ and THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT.

Fred Ward played prison escapee John Anglin in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ with Clint Eastwood.

Ward played prison escapee Rocco Dillon in THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT with Leslie Nielsen.

 

[dragon53]

MONDAY, AUGUST 31

THE STAND---trailer released for the CBS All Access miniseries based on the Stephen King novel.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hO49HF9f9A



DUNE---new photos released from the remake movie.

JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---Jeff Goldblum commented on reuniting with Sam Neill and Laura Dern for the sequel, "The first thing that we shot ... it was a scene with me and Laura Dern and Sam Neill and we were — I can't tell you much — but we were all day in a very tight, enclosed space. You'll see — it's a mystery you'll solve when you see [the movie.] The three of us were in a tiny little space and we were being menaced by — I can't even tell you — a surprising faction of prehistoric creatures that you've never seen before."
A source released photos of one of DOMINION's new dinosaurs, a Pyroraptor, "Looks Like This Might Be Jurassic World Dominion’s Pyroraptor Which I Reported On A Few Months Back. Now this is just a maquette not an animatronic so it’s used for reference and the design might change for the final film."

STAR TREK 4---Chris Pine said he is still interested in starring in the new sequel after he walked out of contract negotiations earlier, "I'm like the last person to find anything out...I know that Paramount is coming out of having restructured a bit and kind of a major corporate restructuring. So hopefully when all that dust settles, something concrete will come out of it and we'll get to work. I'd love to do it."

JUDGE DREDD: MEGA-CITY ONE---Karl Urban commented on possibly returning as Judge Dredd for the proposed tv series, "You can bet your bottom dollar".

DEAR EVAN HANSEN---Amy Adams will co-star in the movie based on the Broadway musical.

THE X-FILES: ALBUQUERQUE---Fox animated comedy THE X-FILES spinoff series about misfit FBI agents who investigate cases too wacky for Mulder and Scully.

BELLA THORNE---director Sean Baker denied he is involved with Bella Throne's documentary about her joining the OnlyFans subscription service in which members pay to see suggestive photos of Thorne.

TRAIN MAN---movie underway about Darius McCollum, a man who suffered from Asperger Syndrome and posed as New York Metro officials in order to operate subway trains.

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
THUNDERBALL is considered to be one of the best James Bond movies. However, THUNDERBALL has noticeable editing errors in which the film is reversed. The obvious examples show Sean Connery's hair parted on the left, but in other scenes, his hair is parted on the right.

In the opening scene of THUNDERBALL, Sean Connery's hair is correctly shown as being parted on the left.

In a helicopter scene, Connery's hair is parted on the left and then the right.

In the dancing scene with Luciana Paluzzi, Connery's hair again is parted on the left and then the right.

 

[dragon53]

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

JURASSIC WORLD: CAMP CRETACEOUS---new trailer released for the Netflix animated tv series.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTIrK3Kku8



DUNE---new photos from the remake movie show Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica and Javier Bardem as Stilgar.

THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM---Netflix tv series from GAME OF THRONES creators David Benioff and DB Weiss and Rian Johnson based on the Chinese sci fi novel trilogy about an alien invasion of Earth.The writer is Alexander Woo (THE TERROR: INFAMY).

ANT-MAN 3---director Peyton Reed commented on the sequel, “I think the third Ant-Man movie is going to be…a much bigger, more sprawling movie than the first two. It’s going to have a very, very different visual template. And that’s all I will say."

SPY---Arnold Schwarzenegger will star in this untitled tv series about a father and daughter spy team.

THE DOORMAN---Ruby Rose and Jean Reno star in this movie about an female ex-Marine who gets a job as a doorman for a luxury New York high-rise and battles a gang of ruthless art thieves.

MARIAH CAREY'S MAGICAL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL---Apple TV+ Christmas special to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Carey's hit Christmas song "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

NEMESIS---sci fi movie underway about a genius engineer and a vigilante who team up to bring down a corrupt President and his administration.

NOS4A2---AMC cancelled the series.

TRIVIA--in the World War II movie WHERE EAGLES DARE, Michael Hordern played Vice Admiral Rolland, who devised a plan to expose Nazi double agents in MI6 by having American Corporal Cartwright Jones impersonate D-Day planner Brigadier General George Carnaby.
Horden also appeared in I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE in which the real-life Lieutenant M.E. Clifton James, an actor before World War II, impersonated General Bernard Montgomery in order to fool the Nazis about the real location of the D-Day invasion.
Also, Hordern, like his character, Vice Admiral Rolland, served in the Royal Navy during the war. Lieutenant Commander Hordern served on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious.

In WHERE EAGLES DARE, Michael Hordern played Vice Admiral Rolland, who devised a plan to expose Nazi double agents in MI6 by having American Corporal Cartwright Jones impersonate D-Day planner Brigadier General George Carnaby.

IN WHERE EAGLES DARE, Robert Beatty played actor and Corporal Cartwright Jones impersonating D-Day planner Brigadier General George Carnaby.

In I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE, Horden played the governor of Gibralter in the British plan to fool the Nazis about the real location of the D-Day invasion.

In I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE, actor and Lieutenant M.E. Clifton James played himself impersonating General Bernard Montgomery in order to fool the Nazis about the real location of the D-Day invasion.

Hordern, like his character, Vice Admiral Rolland, served in the Royal Navy during the war. Lieutenant Commander Hordern served on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious.

 

[marco55]

Was sorry that NOS4A2 got cancelled.
Mark

 

[dragon53]

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

EXTRACTION---the Russo brothers reportedly want Chris Evans and other Marvel Cinematic Universe stars to co-star with Chris Hemsworth in the Netflix sequel.

INDIANA JONES---archaeologist Alexandre Jones commented on the Indiana Jones movies and the scene in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK where he substitutes a bag for an artifact, "Depending on the site, different cultures, and the people who have created what was at that time a location have created different mechanisms that they’ve put in place in order to preserve it. So if we think about China, the Emperor when he built his tomb he actually built thousands of soldiers. And the idea was that in death these soldiers would actually protect him from anybody trying to come and desecrate or disturb this tomb. So you do see things historically that have been done, but nothing to the extent we see in this film."
She added, "So while this is a fun movie and it looks awesome and amazing, and all of us would like to have adventures like this, this film is actually not rooted in any fact. This is not what would take place in an archaeological site today. What’s actually taking place is unethical and something that none of us would engage in."

65---Adam Driver will star in this Sony Pictures sci fi movie. The A QUIET PLACE team of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods will write and direct the movie. Sam Raimi is the producer. No plot details were released.

COPSHOP---Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo will star in this Joe Carnahan movie about a small town police station which is a battleground between a rookie female cop, a hitman and a con man.

THE BRUTALIST---Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Vanessa Kirby and Sebastian Stan star in this movie about a talented architect and his wife who flee post-World War II Europe for America where a wealthy, mysterious client changes their lives forever.

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL---Apple TV+ miniseries based on the book about the New Orleans hospital that lost electricity during Hurricane Katrina which led to a doctor and two nurses being charged with second degree murder after they euthanized many patients.

THE MATRIX 4---Hugo Weaving commented on not returning for the sequel because of a schedule problem with him appearing in London's National Theatre, "Lana Wachowski had rung me at the beginning of last year. We’ve worked together five times, the Wachowski’s and I on three MATRIX films, V FOR VENDETTA and CLOUD ATLAS. I’ve hung out with them all over the world for many, many years. So, yes, Lana was very keen for me to be involved in THE MATRIX. There was a reading with Keanu, Carrie and myself and a few others from the old family.”
He added, “I loved a lot of it and wasn’t sure about other bits. Ultimately, we talked about it and when the offer came through to do it for Warner’s I said yes the next day and I talked to Lana.
I thought we could have done my scenes in May, June and July; and we talked about money and we talked about — they were negotiating. And we were all pretty much sorted and agreed on dates and it was all fine, but then Lana decided she didn’t think it was going to work. So, she pulled the plug on the negotiations. That’s where it ended up. She basically didn’t feel that my commitment to the National Theatre was going to fit in with the dates that she had in mind for me.”

DAD STOP EMBARRASSING ME---Jamie Foxx and Kyla-Drew will star this Netflix comedy series inspired by Foxx and his daughter.

SEX TRAFFICKING---Marisol Nichols and Sony Pictures Television are developing a tv series based on her undercover work against sex trafficking and child abuse after she was recruited by the FBI in 2012.

TRIVIA---In the FANTASTIC VOYAGE scene where Raquel Welch was attacked and covered by deadly antibodies, director Richard Fleischer told the male stars to remove whatever antibodies they chose to. The four actors, Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence, Arthur Kennedy and William Redfield, politely did not remove the antibodies attached to Welch's breasts. Fleischer said this resulted in a "Las Vegas showgirl" effect, so he told the actors to remove antibodies accordingly, and all four grabbed her antibody-covered breasts. Fleischer finally solved the problem by instructing each actor on what specific antibody they had to remove from Welch's body.